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Graham Binns
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Tech Solution Architect, former Interim CTO at Tracr.

Photographer & Filmmaker.

Software Engineer and Puzzle Seeker
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YT has the best comments:
The last time England won a Test in Australia...
Richie Benaud, Bill Lawry and Tony Greig were in Commentary
Steve Smith was picked as a Leg-spinning all-rounder
The Big bash didn't exist
#ashes
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Well, I think that’s the ashes lads. (Not as though they weren’t gone already).
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I have just learnt that Steve Cropper has died. The man behind Booker T and the M.G's. The man behind Soul Limbo. Every cricket fan in these Isles owes him eternal thanks.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Ah, the joy of being an England cricket tragic: unbelievably angry and dispirited, on a day when I wasn’t doing great in the first place.
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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HugOps to cloudflare this morning.
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The eggs we all left in the one basket are hatching.
yeah everything that trusted Cloudflare is fucked

"There is an internal server error on Cloudflare's network."

Cloudflare wanted a chokehold on the internet, and this is what that looks like

status: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
Anyone seeing a Cloudflare outage atm?
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Cloudflare for the dramatic
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“Keep real horses from being frightened.” Tell me the original inventor knew next to nowt about an animal that’s frequently scared by their own farts, never mind the stuffed head of their friend Dobbin floating past.
ok but the horse head does indeed have a stated purpose (keep real horses from being frightened). wouldn't that not be a skeuomorph then since it isn't exclusively ornamental?
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Worth pointing out the biggest supporters of trans people (which is who bigots mean by “gender ideology”) are bisexual & lesbian women. All the public “concerns” about trans people (phase, indoctrination, regret, etc) are recycled forms of homophobia. This is why LGB solidarity with the T is strong.
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Natural Flavor was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Flavor, to control all others.
Excuse me…?
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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The plagiarism machine that’s mostly wrong and consumes lakes would like you to get a low flow toilet
Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.
AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how
Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Countries racing to show they too can be leaders on AI are committing their societies to further social disruption on the altar of attracting short-term investment.

It’s a recipe for disaster, and leaders need to wake up before it’s too late. AI needs to be reined in, not allowed to proliferate.
Deepfake video of Irish presidential candidate rocks campaign
Deepfake video showed Catherine Connolly had withdrawn from race.
www.politico.eu
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I heard that Bill Nye was at the “No Kings” protest today and I was automatically reminded of this video. Enjoy. 😂
October 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.
Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:
October 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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It's wild how much it feels like people are desperate to memory hole this entire phenomenon, to me. How viciously everyone who pointed out the emperor had no clothes were criticized. How content they all seem to be to let the biggest wealth transfer of the decade just fade out w/o REAL examination.
-gross fork in a sink food disposal like laughter- I REMEMBER PUTTING THIS THING OUT 3 YEARS AGO WHEN I STARTED THIS JOB AND IT'S STILL HERE, WITH DUST AGED PAGE EDGES LOL
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The below comment is about the Microsoft Sales Team, but I imagine everything at Microsoft is like this right now.
October 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The whole prove-your-identity / GOV UK One process is just unbelievably, _laughably_ bad. So many different ways that it failed today — including one where it failed on my phone but on the web I got a success message. This stuff's hard to get right but… Christ on a Pony.
October 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Algorithm is definitely winning today at Art on the Avenue
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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i don't even know what to say anymore about these kinds of stories. what more does it take for AI enthusiasts to finally wince?
YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot
YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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hot take i know but you can't slur a software program

that's not a thing

"clanker" — which is directed at the "bots" — is not a slur
September 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.
August 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM